For Your Historians/Physicists: NukeMap

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Link: NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein

 

This website estimates the effect of detonating an atomic bomb in/over a given location. The location and payload can be historically accurate or they can be varied. This gives the student some perspective on the atomic bombs that were dropped in anger and the modern bombs that are available to the military now.

 

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This site has been updated to include 3D representations [via Google Earth]

 

Link: NUKEMAP3D by Alex Wellerstein

 

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Options offered:

 

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